Joseph Ciarrocchi, Ph. D.
Professor of Pastoral Counseling
Director of the Certificate in Spirituality and Trauma Program

Loyola College in Maryland
Pastoral Counseling Department
8890 McGaw Road
Suite 380n
Columbia, MD 21045

410.617.7632
JWC@loyola.edu

Ph.D.,  The Catholic University of America
M.A., Capuchin College
B.A., St. Fidelis College

Dr. Ciarrocchi is a clinical psychologist whose treatment and research interests are in the area of compulsive behaviors, anxiety disorders, and the integration of psychology and spirituality. He has served as Director of Addictions at Taylor Manor Hospital and Director of Outpatient Services for the Saint Luke Institute. He has written five books in the areas of mental health, addictions, and integration of psychology and spirituality: Counseling Problem Gamblers: A Self-Regulation Manual for Individual and Family Therapy, Academic Press; Psychotherapy with Priests, Ministers, and Vowed Religious, Psychosocial Press; Help for Scrupulosity and Religious Compulsions, Paulist Press; A Minister's Handbook of Mental Disorders, Paulist Press; and Why are You Worrying ?, Paulist Press. Dr. Ciarrocchi has published empirical research on pathological gambling, personality profiles of addicted persons, and gender images in relation to images of God.